Hello, I'm Isha Chakraborty

Welcome to my website! I’m Isha Chakraborty. I am working on my Ph.D from Rice University where I work with Ashutosh Sabharwal and Guha Balakrishnan. I’m interested in the intersection of machine learning and digital health. I recently won the National Institute of Health + National Library of Medicine’s Gulf Coast Consortia’s Predoctoral fellowship to fully fund my PhD with Biomedical Informatics & Data Science training, collaborating with the Baylor College of Medicine, Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Before Rice, I attended the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for my undergrad, studying computer science and information & data science, where I was advised by Prof. Adam Blank and worked with Prof. Lior Pachter to generate polygenic risk scores from RNA-seq data for early diagnosis of diseases. I’ve also worked in industry as an intern at Amazon, in the Alexa Devices org where I worked on publishing Alexa device resource updates from multiple devices.